Kevin Townsend

UK's National Audit Office Says Online Fraud Needs to be Treated More Seriously by Government

Human rights group Liberty was today granted permission by the UK High Court to challenge part of the UK government's mass surveillance Investigatory Powers...

Pro-ISIS hacking group Team System DZ is continuing its website defacement campaign. Over last weekend several websites in Ohio and Maryland were forced to...

There is a pressing need for technical assurance standards for industrial control systems (ICS). This is the conclusion and recommendation of a new paper...

Barracuda Networks this week announced its new Sentinel product: an artificial intelligence (AI) powered spear-phishing and business email compromise (BEC) realtime detection and prevention...

Legacy Windows XP systems used by public authorities in the UK remains a concern. The WannaCry outbreak last month followed by the current 'NotPetya'...

The European Commission (EC) has levied a €2.42 billion ($2.73 billion) fine against Google because it "has abused its market dominance as a search...

Cloudflare Launches New Website App Store and Partners With Venture Firms to Launch $100 Million Development Fund

The FBI has published its Internet Crime Report 2016 based on information received by the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). It shows that 298,728...

At Cisco Live, Las Vegas Monday, IT analytics firm Corvil announced the integration of its Security Analytics with the Cisco Tetration Analytics platform. The...

Belmont, Mass-based start-up GreatHorn announced Wednesday completion of a $6.3 million Series A funding round led by Techstars Venture Capital Fund and .406 Ventures. 

With less than one year before GDPR kicks in, the newswaves have been flooded in recent months with new surveys showing how ill-prepared business...

The UK government's Cyber Essentials scheme has suffered an embarrassing incident; but one that can hardly be called a breach and certainly not a...

Under the aegis of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, more than 40 companies -- including some of America's largest banks and tech companies --...

Cost of Data Breach Drops Globally, But Rises 5% in U.S.

Boston, MA-based Cybereason today announced that it has raised $100 million in Series D funding from SoftBank Corp. This increases the total investment in...

Cost of Malvertising is Minimal; Price of Zero-days is Rising, Researchers Say

ShieldX Networks Emerges From Stealth Mode With New Product to Protect Cloud Infrastructure

The Quantum Cryptography Problem

Online sextortion against children is extensive, under-reported, poorly understood, and growing. In response, Europol has simultaneously published a report with recommendations on how to...